Psychology

2015-16 General Catalog

273 Social Sciences 2 Building
(831) 459-2002
http://psychology.ucsc.edu

Program Statement | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Nameera Akhtar
Cognitive and social cognitive processes in early language development, social-cognitive development in young children, bilingual development

Margarita Azmitia
How culture, peers, family, and schools provide a context for adolescents and young adults’ development; how close relationships influence the educational pathways and identity development of ethnically and socioeconomically diverse populations and the role of family, friends, and peers in adolescents and young adults’ development; how adolescents and young adults manage school transitions, such as the transition to middle school and the transition to college

Douglas Bonett
Psychometrics and statistics

Heather E. Bullock
Social class, poverty and economic inequality, welfare policy, feminist psychology, intersections of classism, racism, and sexism

Maureen A. Callanan
Cognitive and language development in the social context of family activities, development of word meanings and concepts, the construction of causal explanations in parent-child conversations

Faye J. Crosby
Gender, social identity, and social justice, especially affirmative action

Jean E. Fox Tree
Psycholinguistics: production and comprehension of spontaneous speech and writing, including discourse markers, prosody, gestures, the effects of communicative technologies on how people communicate, and other topics

Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.
Language, thought, and embodiment; special emphasis on metaphor, pragmatics, and cognitive science

Craig W. Haney
Applications of social psychological principles to legal settings, assessment of the psychological effects of living and working in institutional environments, social contextual origins of violence, development of alternative legal and institutional forms

Campbell Leaper
The developmental and social psychology of gender in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; specific interests include gender-related variations in the following: self-concept and social identity; intersectionality; language and social interaction; social relationships, academic achievement (including STEM); the media; perceptions and consequences of sexism

Anthony R. Pratkanis
Social influence; attitude structure, function, and change

Barbara Rogoff
Human development in sociocultural activity; informal and formal arrangements for learning; adult/child and peer communication in families and schools in diverse cultural communities (especially in Guatemala Mexico and the U.S.); learning through observation and collaboration

Steve Whittaker
Human Computer Interaction: Psychological models of computer use. The design, development and evaluation of computational tools to support memory and conversation

Eileen L. Zurbriggen
Connections between power and sex; sexual aggression and abuse; trauma; sexual decision-making; sexuality and media, the sexualization of girls and women; power in romantic relationships; adolescent sexual development; authoritarianism; feminist political psychology

Associate Professor

Shelly A. Grabe
Structural and individual components of women's rights violations and social justice in the context of globalization; partnership with grassroots women's organizations; embodied oppression

Phillip L. Hammack
Identity, politics, and narrative; culture, power, and social categorization; social and political context of sexual identity development; community climate, social policy, and sexual and gender identity diversity; social change and the life course of sexual minorities; queer intimacies and relationships

Alan H. Kawamoto
Empirical and computer simulation approaches to the study of perceptual and cognitive processes, reading, speech production

Regina D. Langhout
School-community-university collaboration; how schooling and neighborhood experiences are informed by social class, race, and gender; young people and empowerment; participatory action research

Travis L. Seymour
Role of short-term memory, consciousness, and executive control on the human performance of laboratory and applied tasks; cognitive processes amenable to strategic control and how they influence the way in which we maintain situational awareness; high levels of performance in complex cognitive tasks

Su-hua Wang
Cognitive development, infant cognition, theory of mind, learning through action, parent-infant interaction, cross-cultural research, children's use of new technology

Margaret L. Wilson
Visual, spatial, and embodied cognition, with a particular emphasis on how we analogize between domains of thought, using sensory or motor brain resources in the service of other tasks. Specific interests include synaethesia, working memory, sign language, perception of body movement, dance cognition and the evolution of cognition.

Assistant Professor

Christy Byrd
Adolescents' understanding of race and ethnicity in their school contexts, particularly perceptions of school racial climate, racial identity beliefs, and implications for development, motivation, and achievement

Rebecca Covarrubias
Culture, self, and identity; social representations of race, gender, and social class in educational/health contexts; student performance, belonging, and well-being; community and school interventions

Audun Dahl
Moral development; the early acquisition of moral norms through social interactions; helping behavior in young children; children's and adults' concerns with morality; emotional development

Nicolas Davidenko
Cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, high-level perception, face recognition, mathematical modeling

Benjamin Storm
Remembering and forgetting in human memory; creative cognition; autobiographical memory; memory and metamemory considerations in learning and education

Lecturer

Kimberly Cardilla
Developmental psychopathology, personality development, psychological and neuropsychological testing

David A. “Tony” Hoffman, Ph.D.
Child and adolescent development, developmental psychopathology, school psychology, pediatric psychology, chidren and war, children in high risk contexts

Ralph H. Quinn
Clinical psychology, moral development, psychology and religion, existential-humanistic psychology

Donald T. Saposnek
Childhood psychopathology, parenting and family interactions, children and divorce, family mediation, conflict resolution

Veronica K. Tonay
Clinical psychology, community mental health, dream research, psychobiography, creativity

Emeriti

Elliot Aronson, Emeritus
Bruce Bridgeman, Emeritus
Martin M. Chemers, Emeritus
Catherine R. Cooper, Emerita
G. William Domhoff , Emeritus
Per F. Gjerde, Emeritus
David M. Harrington, Emeritus
Michael Kahn, Emeritus
Pavel Machotka, Emeritus
Dominic W. Massaro, Emeritus
Melanie J. Mayer, Emerita
Barry McLaughlin, Emeritus
Thomas F. Pettigrew, Emeritus
Avril Thorne, Emerita

Dane Archer, Professor Emeritus, Sociology

Sri Kurniawan, Associate Professor, School of Engineering
Human-computer interaction; human factors and ergonomics; accessibility; assistive technology; usability; empirical studies; user-centered design

Jerome Neu, Professor, Humanities
Philosophy of mind, emotions and culture, philosophy of law, psychoanalytic theory

Roland G. Tharp, Professor Emeritus, Education and Psychology

Revised: 09/01/15